On Thursday, February 23rd, 6-9pm, the LA Forum will host a Book Launch and panel discussion with Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich of architectural practice PATTERNS at the Vitra Showroom in Culver City.  EMBEDDED documents the work and research of PATTERNS, the award-winning practice founded in Los Angeles in 1999, and includes essays by Spina and Huljich, Todd Gannon, and Marcelyn Gow.  Panelists for the discussion to be announced. This newly-released book is NOT easily available through amazon.com (listed as ‘out-of-print’).

The research and collaborative based approach of the practice seeks to move between digital and material expressions. PATTERNS describes its form-making as driven by digital techniques and advanced computation. In addition to their research, projects include Prism Contemporary Art in West Hollywood; FYF Residence and Jujuy Redux, both in Rosario (Argentina); the Fluid Core Yard in Chengdu, the Skopje Concert Hall in Macedonia, and the Vestbanen KulturAtrium in Oslo.

January 16th, 2012

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Lecture by Catherine Opie, UCLA
Opie’s work engages with the spaces we exist in and the politics of identity. Catherine Opie’s photographs include series of portraits and American urban landscapes, ranging in format from large-scale color works to smaller black and white prints. Opie’s various photographic series are linked together by a conceptual framework of cultural portraiture.
Perloff Hall, Decafé, UCLA Campus
Monday, January 23rd, 2012 – 6:30pm
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Going Hollywood: Hollywood Tower and Best Western
Do neighborhoods evolve on a block-by-block basis? We think they can. Join us as we visit two very different renovation projects on the same block in Hollywood that are transforming a section of the neighborhood once bisected by the freeway. RSVP
6138 Franklin Avenue Hollywood, CA 90028
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 – 6:30pm
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Lecture by Lauren Bon, USC
What’s Next: Metabolism
Bon defines the Metabolic Studio as the intersection of art and philanthropy. Derived from the Greek word for change, ‘metabolism’ is the process that maintains life. In continuous cycles of creation and desctuction metabolism transforms nutrients into energy and matter.  The Metabolic Studio transforms resources into energy, actions adn objects that nurture life.
Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 – 6:00pm
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Lecture by Michel Rojkind, SCI-Arc
Over Stimulation
Michel Rojkind is the Founding Partner of Rojkind Arquitectos. He studied Architecture and Urban Planning at the Universidad Iberoamericana and has based his practice from Mexico City to other latitudes thriving in this creative, chaotic environment, rethinking possible interventions of architecture at a worldwide level.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 – 7pm
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RE:COMPOSITION
Kaleidoscope of Pacific Standard Time’s is a website resource for artworks and ideas that shape California’s fertile contemporary art landscape, and four new performance artworks.RE:COMPOSITION, considers how current compositional practices and tools enable artists from all disciplines to re-conceive or reconstitute aspects of their art production.Tickets available at the door for $15 (general admission) and $12 (seniors and students).
SCI-Arc, 960 E 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Friday and Saturday, January 27th & 28th, 2012 – 8pm
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BWP Community Fair & Dedication Ceremony
Burbank Water and Power will host a community celebration and special dedication ceremony to commemorate the completion of California’s first comprehensive, sustainable utility campus. Burbank Mayor Jess Talamantes, Senator Carol Liu, US Department of Energy representatives Kelly Opatz and Daniel Stricker, and Discovery Planet Green’s Sarah Backhouse will be among the special guests. Guests will be invited totake a bird’s eye view of the new campus, which is normally closed to the general public. The site has been transformed from an industrial relic into a state-of-the-art, award-winning sustainable campus and a model for other public and private entities around the nation.
Burbank Water and Power Department
Saturday, January 28th, 2012 – 10am-1pm
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Lecutre by Federick Fisher, UCLA
Frederick Fisher leads a practice focused on art, academic institutions, and residences.  Fred received his Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College in Art and Master of Architecture from UCLA. Artist collaboration is a career long commitment. Fred was awarded the Franklin D. Israel Rome Prize in 2008.
Perloff Hall, Decafé, UCLA Campus
Monday, January 30th, 2012 – 6:30pm
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California Design NOW, Temporary Insanity: The New Built Environment
The Decorative Arts and Design Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents a wide-ranging discussion on the influence of modern California design on contemporary architecture. Panelists will consider the emergence of temporary architectural installations, the blurring of distinctions between art and architecture, and future directions for the field. Organized in conjunction with the exhibition California Design 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way.”
Brown Auditorium, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 – 7pm
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Lecture by Sylvia Lavin, SCI-Arc
Field Trip
Sylvia Lavin is a widely published critic and historian who received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her most recent book, Kissing Architecture, was published by Princeton University Press (2011.) Lavin has been a guest curator for the Hammer Museum, CCA and Ace Galleries and is currently working on a large scale exhibition, Fin-de-Sixties LA: From Pop to Postmodern Architecture.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 – 7pm
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Lecture by Mark Lee, USC
What Becomes Has Always Been
Mark Lee is the principal of Johnston Marklee & Associates. The Los Angeles based firm has been engaged in a range of institutional, residential and commercial commissions in California, Texas, Michigan, Illinois and New Mexico as well as in China, Argentina, Portugal and Italy since the office opened in 1998.  Combining his academic and design expertise, Mark Lee conducts speculative research based on critical reassessments of architectural and urban design history.
Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 – 6 pm
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Lecture and Curatorial Tour by Wendy Kaplan and Bobbye Tigerman
“California Design 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way”
Wendy Kaplan and Bobbye Tigerman delve into the details of the current LACMA exhibition followed by a complementary curatorial guided tour of the exhibition. Tickets: $25 public, $20 for FoGH members. Note: Tour has limited space. Reservations required.(626) 793-3334 ext. 52 or visit www.gamblehouse.org.
Lecture: Feburary 2nd, 2012, – 7pm
Neighborhood Church, 301 North Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, 91103
Tour: Feburary 4th, 2012, – 10:30am
LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
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Lecture by Joe Day, UCLA
Joe Day is a designer and architectural theorist in Los Angeles, where he leads Deegan-Day Design LLC and serves on the design and history/theory faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). In both his design and writing, Day examines the intersections of contemporary art, urbanism and architecture as visual disciplines.
Perloff Hall, Decafé, UCLA Campus
February 6th, 2012 – 6:30pm
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Call for Letters of Interest for the Exhibition of the Occupy LA Artifacts
The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) seeks to identify an organization or organizations to take conditional possession of one or both wooden structures used during the Occupy LA protests. The wooden enclosures were erected by the City of Los Angeles during the recent Occupy LA protests and occupation of the City Hall South Lawn. These wooden enclosures, therefore, became artifacts of the Occupy LA movement.
The deadline is Monday, February 6th, 2012
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Lecture by Robin Clark, Woodbury University
Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface
Robin Clark is a curator and art historian specializing in intersections between contemporary art and architecture.  Her recent exhibitions and publications include Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art, which featured work in allmedia by fourteen international artists (Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2009), and Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, a Pacific Standard Time project focused on thirteen artists working in Los Angeles during the 1960s and 70s for whom light was a primary medium (University of California Press and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2011).
Ahmanson Main Space, Woodbury University
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 – 6:30 pm
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Lecture by Xavier Vendrell, Otis College of Art and Design
2011-2012 Donghia Designer-in-Residence
Xavier Vendrell is founder of the acclaimed Xavier Vendrell Studio Chicago/Barcelona, a collaborative practice engaging urban design, landscape architecture, architecture and interiors. Mr. Vendrell has been the recipient of numerous awards including several FAD Awards (one for the Riumar School in Spain. This lecture and reception are free and open to the public.
Ahmanson Auditorium
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA  90012
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 – 7pm
Open Seating, 07:30pm Lecture – 9pm Reception
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Lecture by Rachel Berney, USC
Visible Competency, Public Space and City Reimaginings
Rachel Berney is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California, where she teaches in the fields of landscape architecture and urban design and planning. Her research interests include history and theory of urban design and planning with an emphasis on social and environmental factors.
Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, USC
February 8th, 2012 – 6pm
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Lecture by John Enright, SCI-Arc
Recent Threads
John Enright is Co-founder and Principal of the Los Angeles-based Griffin Enright Architects, with partner Margaret Griffin. His firm’s work has been extensively published nationally and internationally, and has received dozens of awards for design excellence including, local, state and national AIA Awards and The American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
February 8th, 2012 – 7pm
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FORM’s “Building Greatness”
Join FORM Magazine for “A Conversation with Paul Matt” FORM Magazine is proud to announce it’s networking event and discussion with Paul Matt of Matt Construction. Attendees can RSVP directly to Sheila Mendes-Coleman (sheila@formmag.net) or call818.956.5313.
Poltrona Frau & Cappellini Showroom
February 9th, 2012 – 6:30-9:30pm
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Drawn: New Works by Jennifer Gilman, Woodbury University
Wedge Gallery, Woodbury Architecture School, Burbank, CA
Opening: Friday, February 10, 2012 – 6:30 pm
Exhibit: February 7-25
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Death and Life of an Object
Edward Cella Art + Architecture presents Death and Life of an Object, a three person exhibition featuring sculptures and installations by Lynn Aldrich, Laurie Frick and Tim Hawkinson. The transformation of everyday objects and materials into artworks has been a pursuit of all three artists in this exhibition. This program is free and open to the public.
Edward Cella Art + Architecture
6018 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 11th, 2012 – 6pm to 8pm
February 11th, 2012 – March 31st, 2012
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Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia: Papel tejido
Los Angeles, CA—CB1 Gallery  is  pleased  to  present  its  second  solo  exhibition  of  the  work  of artist Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia. The works in the exhibition, titled Papel tejido, are woven paper constructions based on the grid motif and take their visual cues from many sources including Scottish Tartan, basket weaving and abstract painting. Gallery hours are Wednesday – Saturday,  11am – 6:00 pm,  Sunday  1pm – 6pm, or by appointment.
CB1 Gallery, 207 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 – February 19th, 2012
Reception for the artist: Sunday, January 22nd – 5–7 pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, February 12th – 3pm
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Lecture by Sarah Whiting, USC
Thinking Big
Sarah Whiting possesses an indefatigable curiosity about how individuals constitute a public and, more specifically, through what forms(architecture and urbanism) that public manifests itself and is, in turn, formed. Her teaching, writing, and practice focus on the politics and architectures of this public realm. In addition to her position as William Ward Watkin Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture at Rice, Whiting is a partner of the architecture office, WW, based in Houston, and is also an architectural critic.
Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 – 6pm
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Lecture by Juan Herreros, SCI-Arc
Dialogue Architecture
Juan Herreros is a PhD Architect, Chair Professor and Director of the Thesis Program at the Madrid School of Architecture, as well as a Visiting Professor at Columbia University. He has previously taught at EPFL, Lausanne, Architectural Association, London, Princeton, and ITT in Chicago. In 1984, he founded together with Iñaki Abalos the office Abalos & Herreros, in 1992 the Multimedia International League, and in 2006 his current office, HerrerosArquitectos, through which he pursues his professional, teaching and pedagogical activity.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc
February 15th, 2012 – 7pm
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Common Places: Printing, Embroidery, and the Art of Global Mapping
Common Places features three objects from LACMA’s permanent collection which transform printed works on paper into one-of-a-kind embroideries: a seventeenth-century valance, a cigarette silks quilt, and Alighiero Boetti’s Mappa. The resulting textiles articulate contemporary aspects of global phenomena and suggest that far from being a recent development, globalization has deep historical roots that extended into the home and everyday life.
Ahmanson Building, Level 2, LACMA
Wednesday, February 18th, 2012-May 13th, 2012
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Lecture by Marcel Sanchez-Prieto, Woodbury University
Marcel Sanchez co-founded CRO Studio with Adriana Cuellar in 2007. The collaborative research practice focuses on urban and architectural design, with projects ranging from private institutions, housing developments to urban renewals and cultural centers. Sanchez is assistant professor at Woodbury University San Diego where his research includes the development of design methodologies that expand on geometry as tool for urban sensing and architectural innovation.
Ahmanson Main Space, Woodbury University
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 – 6:30 pm
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Lecture by Peter Trummer, SCI-Arc
The Aggregated Figure and Its Unfolding Ground
Peter Trummer is Professor and Head of the Institute for Urban Design & Spatial Planning at the University of Innsbruck. He was Head of the Associative Design Program at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam from 2004 to 2010. Trummer practiced architecture with UN Studio before establishing his own firm in 2001.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc
February 22, 2012 – 7pm
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New Narratives for “Living in a Modern Way”: California Design at Mid-Century
Chaired by Wendy Kaplan and Bobbye Tigerman, co-curators of the current LACMA exhibition California Design 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way,” this two-day symposium features internationally renowned scholars who will examine the exhibition’s themes by presenting detailed case studies and new narratives. The event also includes a session co-sponsored by the College Art Association that explores the interconnected networks of architecture and design in mid-century Los Angeles, with designers Gere Kavanaugh and Lou Danziger (whose work is included in the exhibition) and architect Ray Kappe.
Bing Theater, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
February 24–25th, 2012
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Reflections of Mid-Century Modernism
The USC Architectural Guild invites you to a weekend experience of Reflections of Mid-Century Modernism. We welcome you to share in a truly unique weekend hosted by Dean Qingyun Ma, fully exploring, investigating, and celebrating Sunnylands, A.Q. Jones, architecture, and the value of historic preservation.
Rancho Mirage and Palm Springs
Tuesday, February 24-26th, 2012
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Lecture by Ricardo de Ostos, SCI-Arc
Ectoplasmatic Manifestations
NaJa & deOstos is a London based architectural studio exploring symbiotic relations between emerging cultural patterns and architectural narratives. With a strong research-based design focus attitude, Nannette Jackowski and Ricardo de Ostos seek to generate an adventurous (and sometimes excitingly dangerous) but beneficial built environment through critical and challenging speculation.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc
February 29th, 2012 – 7pm
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Lecture by Dr. David Jason Gerber, USC
Dr. David Jason Gerber is an Assistant Professor at the USC School of Architecture. He concurrently works as an executive at Gehry Technologies Inc., a leading Building Information Modeling consultancy and technology company.
Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, USC
March 7th, 2012 – 6pm
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Lecture by Phillippe Rahm, SCI-Arc
Meteorological Architecture
Philippe Rahm is an architect based in Paris. In 2008, he was one of twenty architects invited by Aaron Betsky to the Venice Architecture Biennale, and in 2009 Editions Archibooks published his book, “Architecture Météorologique.” He was appointed director of the Symposium on Architecture and Climate: Towards an Atmospheric Architecture held at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc
March 7th, 2012 – 7pm
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Aquifer: Exhibition V, Woodbury University
Wedge Gallery, Woodbury Architecture School, Burbank, CA
March 13th-28th, 2012
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Lecture by Thom Mayne, SCI-Arc
What’s Next?*
Thom Mayne founded Morphosis in 1972 as an interdisciplinary and collective practice involved in experimental design and research.  He is a founding faculty member of SCI-Arc and Distinguished Professor at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc
March 14, 2012 – 7pm
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Lecture by Achim Menges, USC
Material (In)formation:  Computing Material Gestalt
Professor Achim Menges is an architect and professor at Stuttgart University where he is the founding director of Institute for Computational Design. Currently he also is Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Menges practice and research focuses on the development of integral design processes at the intersection of evolutionary computation, algorithmic design, biomimetic engineering and computer aided manufacturing that enables a highly articulated, performative built environment.
Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall
Wednesday, March 21st, 2011 – 6pm
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Lecture by Anthony Vidler, SCI-Arc
James Frazier Stirling: Notes from the Archive – Crisis of Modernism
Anthony Vidler, a historian and critic of architecture, is Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union.  Trained in architecture at Cambridge University in England, with a PhD in history and theory from TU Delft, he was a member of the faculty of the Princeton University School of Architecture.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc
March 21st, 2012 – 7pm
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Drylands Design Exhibition Opening, Woodbury University
Arid Lands Institute
Architecture + Design Museum, Los Angeles
Thursday, March 22, 2012 – 6-9 pm
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Lecture by Nicholas de Monchaux, SCI-Arc
Fashioning Apollo
Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect who works at the urban intersection of nature and technology. He is author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011), an architectural history of the Apollo 11 Extra-vehicular garment. He received his B.Arch with distinction from Yale, and his M.Arch from Princeton.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc
March 28th, 2012 – 7pm
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Exhibit by Pedro E. Guerrero, WUHO
A Retrospective
A Retrospective presents a rare opportunity to see Guerrero’s seminal contribution to architectural photography, ranging from portraits of architects, commercial work for House & Garden Magazine, and photographs of buildings throughout the United States.
WUHO, 6518 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Opening: April 7th, 2012 – 7pm to 10pm (artist in conversation 6pm to 7pm)
Exhibition: April 7th through April 25th, 2012
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Lecture by Jeanne Gang, Woodbury University
Visionary architect and 2011 MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang is the founder and principal of Studio Gang Architects, a rising international practice based in Chicago whose work confronts pressing contemporary issues. Driven by curiosity, intelligence, and radical creativity, Jeanne has produced some of today’s most innovative and award-winning architecture.
Fletcher Jones Auditorium, Woodbury University
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 – 6:30pm
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Ongoing Los Angeles Area Events

Eames Designs: The Guest Host Relationship
For the first time, the words of Charles and Ray Eames will be the lens of an exhibit, enveloping the visitor in a 21st century typographic “surround”. Their philosophy of design and life will be explored through Eames’ quotes, shown graphically (as well as live on film), and complemented by the display of unexpected everyday objects, ranging from food to a keg of nails, to an inter-active digital experience.
A+D Museum
6032 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90036
October 1, 2011- January 16, 2012
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Hollywood Urban Planning Pop-Up Shop, James Rojas
Come join the Woodbury School of Architecture and James Rojas at Woodbury University Hollywood Gallery (WUHO). Re-invision the neighborhood with the Hollywood Urban Planning Pop-Up Shop, featuring workshops and an interactive urban diorama by James Rojas, with construction help from Woodbury School of Architecture students. The Hollywood Urban Planning Shop is a community engagement project that critiques the design of cities today by asking the public to re-imagine Hollywood. The question every Pop-Up Shop visitor must ask his or herself is, “What would Hollywood look like if we rebuilt it today?”
WUHO
Opening: Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 – 2pm
January 22nd-29th
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Under the Big Black Sun
California Art 1974-1982
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81 constitutes the most comprehensive survey exhibition to date to examine the exceptional fertility and diversity of art practice in California between 1974 and 1980, a unique period in American history when the political and social roles of artists, the authority of institutions, and the “objecthood” of art were all being questioned.
MOCA
October 1st, 2011- February 13th, 2012
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Exhibition by Ramiro Diaz-Granados, Amorphis, SCI-Arc
Go Figure
Seeking to shift the role of the figure from a metaphorical device to a subliminal one, Go Figure promotes simultaneity in the evolution of the delineated figure by distributing cartoon and visceral features across a three-dimensional, spline based form.
Opening Reception: Friday, January 13th, 2011- 7pm
Friday, February 10th, 2011 7-9pm: Exhibition Discussion with Ramiro Diaz-Granados and SCI-Arc
January 13th – February 26th, 2012
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Women Hold up Half the Sky
LAYER is pleased to announce the opening of its installation “Cloud” at the Skirball Cultural Center. The exhibit addresses gender equity and is based on the book Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. “Cloud” is suspended over the gallery as a tangible representation of the power of individuals coming together to effect change.
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
October 27, 2011-March 11, 2012
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California Design, 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way”
This exhibition is the first major study of California midcentury modern design. With more than 300 objects-furniture, ceramics, metalwork, fashion and textiles, and industrial and graphic design-the exhibition examines the state’s role in shaping the material culture of the entire country.
Resnick Pavilion LACMA
October 1, 2011 – March 25, 2012
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The Forum would also like to extend our gratitude to outgoing President Jason Kerwin and board members Ewan Branda, Margaret Griffin, Todd Gannon, Rick Miller, Francie Stefan, Rosten Woo and Joshua Stein for their service and significant contributions to the Forum’s mission in recent years.

For Subterranea, architect Rick Gooding created more than 30 meticulous pencil drawings, each depicting an imaginary underground realm. Winding tunnels and labyrinthine passageways are rendered by hand, resolving into dense, intricate patterns.

In an era of digital representation, Gooding celebrates the precise and beautiful craft of manual drafting. He works without rulers or measuring devices and carefully constructs his drawings using the most basic architectural drafting tools: a straight edge, a 314 pencil, and an eraser and erasing shield. Gooding works exclusively in black and white. The simple palette occasionally produces Escher-esque qualities. Subversive flips of figure/ground and slips in optical logic confuse the readings of these rigorously constructed drawings.

These eerie illustrations inspire comparisons to Aldo Rossi’s stark linework, as well as to Surrealist painter Giorgio De Chirico’s forlorn cityscapes, in which the urban realm is inhabited as often by headless statuary as by human citizens. Gooding’s imagery evokes engine works and machine constructs, echoing power plants architecture as much as maze-like buildings for human habitation. Yet, however provocative, Gooding’s spaces are ultimately inaccessible.

RICK GOODING

Rick Gooding is a principal of the award-winning firm CHU+GOODING Architects in Los Angeles, focusing on projects for arts-related and higher education clients, including arts organizations such as MoCA, Hammer Museum, the Getty Center, Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Southern California Public Radio and the Autry National Center.

Gooding received a Master of Science in Architecture and Building Design from Columbia University in 1985 and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in 1984. He trained for 14 years as Project Architect or Associate with Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects in New York City, Morphosis, Franklin D. Israel, Richard Meier Partners & Johnson Fain Partners in Los Angeles before joining Annie Chu in 1999.

Subterranea is his first solo exhibition.

WEDGE GALLERY

Located in a sliver of the School of Architecture, the Wedge is the exhibition venue for the Los Angeles–Burbank campus. The gallery space presents multiple shows a semester, each exhibition fitting into an overarching theme. As a venue, WEDGE addresses and brings together two audiences, the Burbank campus and Los Angeles’ greater architecture and design community. The space exhibits student work, giving students the opportunity to learn from their classmates’ drawings and models, as well as work by invited architects, artists, and faculty members.

architecture.woodbury.edu

Subterranea: Drawings by Rick Gooding
2011-12 WEDGE Gallery Aquifer Series
Woodbury University School of Architecture
7500 N. Glenoaks Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91504

January 10th-28th
Opening Reception: Friday, January 13th, 6:30pm
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m.–1 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday 1–4 p.m., or by appointment

Upcoming Los Angeles Area Events

Eames Words onScreen with Eames
A+D Museum presents EAMES onSCREEN with Eames Demetrios, grandson of Charles & Ray. Eames will present a special and surprising selection of Eames films as well as premiere his own latest film Elephant Safaris: To The Wilds. Admission: $10 Individual, $5 Student w/ valid ID, A+D Members FREE.
A+D Museum
6032 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90036
January 10th, 2012, 6:30PM – 8:30PM
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County of Los Angeles Bicycle Master Plan: Public Hearing
The County of Los Angeles is pleased to announce the release of its 2011 Final Bicycle Master Plan. The Final Plan proposes approximately 832 miles of new bikeways throughout the County. Along with the proposed bikeways, the Plan recommends various bicycle-friendly policies and programs to promote bicycle ridership amongst users of all ages and skill sets within the County.
Hall of Records,Room 150
320 West Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 9:00am
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The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) Listening Session/ Open House
The CHSRA will hold a listening session/open house to address questions and seek feedback about the Small and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program, which seeks to ensure that small businesses throughout California share in the economic opportunity afforded by the construction of high-speed rail. Please check in with the security desk (on the third floor) to obtain access to the meeting room.
Metro Headquarters
Mulholland Room (15th Floor)
One Gateway Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90012-2952
Thursday, January 12th, 2012, 9:00 am – 12:00pm
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SAH/SCC Lecture and Book Signing, Ernst L. Freud, Architect
Ernst Freud, the son of Sigmund – an architect who designed modern homes for his bourgeois clients. Freud attended Adolf Loos’s private Bauschule, then practiced in Berlin and London. Join the Society of Architectural Historians/Southern California Chapter as member Volker Welter presents his groundbreaking new book, Ernst L. Freud: The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home. Free and Open to the public.
Santa Monica Public Library, Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium
601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica
Thursday, January 12th,2012, 07:00 PM
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Exhibition by Ramiro Diaz-Granados, Amorphis, SCI-Arc
Go Figure
Seeking to shift the role of the figure from a metaphorical device to a subliminal one, Go Figure promotes simultaneity in the evolution of the delineated figure by distributing cartoon and visceral features across a three-dimensional, spline based form.
Opening Reception: Friday, January 13th, 2011- 7pm
Friday, February 10th, 2011 7-9pm: Exhibition Discussion with Ramiro Diaz-Granados and SCI-Arc
January 13th – February 26th, 2012
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Rethinking Glendale Boulevard
Join us for an innovative approach for the rethinking Glendale Boulevard in Echo Park. Participants will be asked to build their ideal street in 20 minutes with found objects. Next they will collaborate with fellow participants to share their ideas and implement them on the street. Echo Park and Silver Lake stakeholders of all ages and political persuasions are encouraged to RSVP atechopark@patch.com.
Echo Country Outpost
1770 Glendale Boulevard, LA CA 90026
Saturday, January 14th, 2012, 10:00am – 12:00pm
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Lecture by Cliff Garten, SCI-Arc
Civic Material
American artist Cliff Garten is sought-after for his evocative and nuanced site-specific sculpture. Garten creates large-scale sculptures that seamlessly integrate within urban space, landscape, and infrastructure environments. His body of work has been praised for the way it utilizes light to create energy, inspires interest in public activity, and reframes a sense of place within public and private realms.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
Wednesday, January 18th, 2011- 7pm
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Lecture by Jesse Reiser, UCLA
Jesse Reiser received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Cooper Union in New York and completed his Masters of Architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture, PC has built projects at a wide range of scales: from furniture design, to residential and commercial structures, up to the scale of landscape, urban design, and infrastructure.
Perloff Hall, Decafé, UCLA Campus
Friday, January 20th, 2011 – 6:30pm
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Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia: Papel tejido
Los Angeles, CA—CB1 Gallery is pleased to present its second solo exhibition of the work of artist Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia. The works in the exhibition, titled Papel tejido, are woven paper constructions based on the grid motif and take their visual cues from many sources including Scottish Tartan, basket weaving and abstract painting. Gallery hours are Wednesday – Saturday, 11am – 6:00 pm, Sunday 1pm – 6pm, or by appointment.
CB1 Gallery, 207 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 – February 19th, 2012
Reception for the artist: Sunday, January 22nd, 5 – 7 p.m.
Artist Talk: Sunday, February 12th, 3 p.m.
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Lecture by Catherine Opie, UCLA
Opie’s work engages with the spaces we exist in and the politics of identity. Catherine Opie’s photographs include series of portraits and American urban landscapes, ranging in format from large-scale color works to smaller black and white prints. Opie’s various photographic series are linked together by a conceptual framework of cultural portraiture.
Perloff Hall, Decafé, UCLA Campus
Monday, January 23rd, 2011 – 6:30pm
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Lecture by Lauren Bon, USC
What’s Next: Metabolism
Bon defines the Metabolic Studio as the intersection of art and philanthropy. Derived from the Greek word for change, ‘metabolism’ is the process that maintains life. In continuous cycles of creation and desctuction metabolism transforms nutrients into energy and matter. The Metabolic Studio transforms resources into energy, actions adn objects that nurture life.
Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012, at 6:00pm
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Lecture by Michel Rojkind, SCI-Arc
Over Stimulation
Michel Rojkind is the Founding Partner of Rojkind Arquitectos. He studied Architecture and Urban Planning at the Universidad Iberoamericana and has based his practice from Mexico City to other latitudes thriving in this creative, chaotic environment, rethinking possible interventions of architecture at a worldwide level.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
Wednesday, January 25th, 2011- 7pm
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RE:COMPOSITION

Kaleidoscope of Pacific Standard Time’s is a website resource for artworks and ideas that shape California’s fertile contemporary art landscape, and four new performance artworks.RE:COMPOSITION, considers how current compositional practices and tools enable artists from all disciplines to re-conceive or reconstitute aspects of their art production.Tickets available at the door for $15 (general admission) and $12 (seniors and students).

SCI-Arc, 960 E 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90013

Friday and Saturday, January 27th & 28th, 2012, 8:00 p.m.

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Lecutre by Federick Fisher, UCLA
Frederick Fisher leads a practice focused on art, academic institutions, and residences. Fred received his Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College in Art and Master of Architecture from UCLA. Artist collaboration is a career long commitment. Fred was awarded the Franklin D. Israel Rome Prize in 2008.
Perloff Hall, Decafé, UCLA Campus
Monday, January 30th, 2011 – 6:30pm
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Lecture by Sylvia Lavin, SCI-Arc
Field Trip
Sylvia Lavin is a widely published critic and historian who received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her most recent book, Kissing Architecture, was published by Princeton University Press (2011.) Lavin has been a guest curator for the Hammer Museum, CCA and Ace Galleries and is currently working on a large scale exhibition, Fin-de-Sixties LA: From Pop to Postmodern Architecture.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
Wednesday, February 1st, 2011- 7pm
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Lecture and Curatorial Tour by Wendy Kaplan and Bobbye Tigerman
“California Design 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way”
Wendy Kaplan and Bobbye Tigerman delve into the details of the current LACMA exhibition followed by a complementary curatorial guided tour of the exhibition. Tickets: $25 public, $20 for FoGH members. Note: Tour has limited space. Reservations required.(626) 793-3334 ext. 52 or visit www.gamblehouse.org.
Lecture: Feburary 7th, 2012, at 7:00pm
Neighborhood Church, 301 North Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, 91103
Tour: Feburary 4th, 2012, at 10:30am
LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
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Lecture by Joe Day, UCLA
Joe Day is a designer and architectural theorist in Los Angeles, where he leads Deegan-Day Design LLC and serves on the design and history/theory faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). In both his design and writing, Day examines the intersections of contemporary art, urbanism and architecture as visual disciplines.
Perloff Hall, Decafé, UCLA Campus
February 6, 2011 – 6:30pm
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Call for Letters of Interest for the Exhibition of the Occupy LA Artifacts
The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) seeks to identify an organization or organizations to take conditional possession of one or both wooden structures used during the Occupy LA protests. The wooden enclosures were erected by the City of Los Angeles during the recent Occupy LA protests and occupation of the City Hall South Lawn. These wooden enclosures, therefore, became artifacts of the Occupy LA movement.
The deadline is Monday, February 6th, 2012
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Lecture by Xavier Vendrell, Otis College of Art and Design
2011-2012 Donghia Designer-in-Residence
Xavier Vendrell is founder of the acclaimed Xavier Vendrell Studio Chicago/Barcelona, a collaborative practice engaging urban design, landscape architecture, architecture and interiors. Mr. Vendrell has been the recipient of numerous awards including several FAD Awards (one for the Riumar School in Spain. This lecture and reception are free and open to the public.
Ahmanson Auditorium
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 7:00pm
Open Seating, 07:30pm Lecture, 09:00pm Reception
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Lecture by John Enright, SCI-Arc
Recent Threads
John Enright is Co-founder and Principal of the Los Angeles-based Griffin Enright Architects, with partner Margaret Griffin. His firm’s work has been extensively published nationally and internationally, and has received dozens of awards for design excellence including, local, state and national AIA Awards and The American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
February 8th, 2011- 7pm
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Death and Life of an Object
Edward Cella Art + Architecture presents Death and Life of an Object, a three person exhibition featuring sculptures and installations by Lynn Aldrich, Laurie Frick and Tim Hawkinson. The transformation of everyday objects and materials into artworks has been a pursuit of all three artists in this exhibition. This program is free and open to the public.
Edward Cella Art + Architecture
6018 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 11th, 2012 6:00pm to 8:00pm
February 11th, 2012 – March 31st, 2012
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Common Places: Printing, Embroidery, and the Art of Global Mapping
Common Places features three objects from LACMA’s permanent collection which transform printed works on paper into one-of-a-kind embroideries: a seventeenth-century valance, a cigarette silks quilt, and Alighiero Boetti’s Mappa. The resulting textiles articulate contemporary aspects of global phenomena and suggest that far from being a recent development, globalization has deep historical roots that extended into the home and everyday life.
Ahmanson Building, Level 2, LACMA
Wednesday, February 18th, 2012-May 13th, 2012
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Reflections of Mid-Century Modernism
The USC Architectural Guild invites you to a weekend experience of Reflections of Mid-Century Modernism. We welcome you to share in a truly unique weekend hosted by Dean Qingyun Ma, fully exploring, investigating, and celebrating Sunnylands, A.Q. Jones, architecture, and the value of historic preservation.
Rancho Mirage and Palm Springs
Tuesday, February 24-26th, 2012
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Exhibit by Pedro E. Guerrero, WUHO
A Retrospective
A Retrospective presents a rare opportunity to see Guerrero’s seminal contribution to architectural photography, ranging from portraits of architects, commercial work for House & Garden Magazine, and photographs of buildings throughout the United States.
WUHO, 6518 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Opening: April 7th, 2012 – 7pm to 10pm (artist in conversation 6pm to 7pm)
Exhibition: April 7th through April 25th, 2012
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Ongoing Los Angeles Area Events

The Utopian City Project, Giacomo Castagnola and James Rojas
The Collaborative: A project of the Arts Council for Long Beach and The Museum of Latin American Art
Preoccupied with the idea of building an improved society, many architects throughout history have developed projects with the aim of creating the ideal city. Using Long Beach as a model, this exhibition proposes a new exercise in imagining the perfect utopian city of the future.
The Collaborative
421 W. Broadway Ave., Long Beach, CA 90802
October 22nd, 2011 to January 15th, 2012
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Eames Designs: The Guest Host Relationship
For the first time, the words of Charles and Ray Eames will be the lens of an exhibit, enveloping the visitor in a 21st century typographic “surround”. Their philosophy of design and life will be explored through Eames’ quotes, shown graphically (as well as live on film), and complemented by the display of unexpected everyday objects, ranging from food to a keg of nails, to an inter-active digital experience.
A+D Museum
6032 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90036
October 1, 2011- January 16, 2012
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Under the Big Black Sun
California Art 1974-1982
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81 constitutes the most comprehensive survey exhibition to date to examine the exceptional fertility and diversity of art practice in California between 1974 and 1980, a unique period in American history when the political and social roles of artists, the authority of institutions, and the “objecthood” of art were all being questioned.
MOCA
October 1st, 2011- February 13th, 2012
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Women Hold up Half the Sky
LAYER is pleased to announce the opening of its installation “Cloud” at the Skirball Cultural Center. The exhibit addresses gender equity and is based on the book Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. “Cloud” is suspended over the gallery as a tangible representation of the power of individuals coming together to effect change.
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
October 27, 2011-March 11, 2012
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California Design, 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way”
This exhibition is the first major study of California midcentury modern design. With more than 300 objects-furniture, ceramics, metalwork, fashion and textiles, and industrial and graphic design-the exhibition examines the state’s role in shaping the material culture of the entire country.
Resnick Pavilion LACMA
October 1, 2011 – March 25, 2012
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LA FORUM
Founded in 1987, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting innovative art, architecture, design, and urbanism that takes this city as a laboratory. The Forum plays a vital role among architecture organizations nationally and internationally by initiating, presenting, and debating architectural and urbanistic speculations about Los Angeles.

Memberships and Donations

Memberships: Membership helps sustain the Forum’s website, lectures, competitions, publications, and other events. By renewing your membership or becoming a member, you give support to the cause of architecture and design, while enjoying a stimulating year of Forum happenings. Some membership levels also receive complimentary gifts.

John Chase Memorial Fund: In memory of John Chase, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design will grant an annual award for the creation of an event or publication in his name that will tackle the urban issues he believed in by bringing new talking heads to light as critical voices of today. We are thrilled to keep the celebration of John alive with this endeavor.

LA Forum Sponsors & Contributors

Sponsors: St. Thomas the Apostle School, Blueprint, Colornet Press, and Woodbury University.

Contributors: AHBE Landscape Architects, Architects’ Newspaper, Arktura, Boffi, D+ Con Construction, Daly Genik Architects, Ehrlich Architects, Fred Fisher and Partners, Gehry Partners, Gensler, Griffin Enright Architects, House & Robertson Architects, Inc., Ilan Dei Studio, KCRW, Koning Eizenberg, LA AIA, Merry Norris Contemporary Art, Morphosis Architects, Pamela Burton & Company, Taylor & Company, Tichenor & Thorp Architects, Inc., Thornton Tomasetti, Suisman Urban Design, Osborn, SCI-Arc, Warren Techentin Architecture, Uprinting and WD Partners.

Leah Beeferman- Online Gallery

- Subtle structures

- Non-measurable objects

- Interchangeable sequences

- Events over time

- Uncertain spaces (indeterminate)

- Interference and accumulations

- Invented collisions (and their results)

- Invented events

- Transparent events

- Invisible architecture
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Upcoming Los Angeles Area Events

Exhibition by Ramiro Diaz-Granados, Amorphis, SCI-Arc
Go Figure
Seeking to shift the role of the figure from a metaphorical device to a subliminal one, Go Figure promotes simultaneity in the evolution of the delineated figure by distributing cartoon and visceral features across a three-dimensional, spline based form. A delineated figure is repeated four times into two symmetrical pairs. Each pair is situated in the gallery according to different transversal regulating lines stemming from the relationship between the ground and the ceiling. One pair is centered within the space, the other is centered under one of the structural bays. Together they fill the space in a composition that confounds the legibility of each figure in favor of more sensate qualities with allusions to calligraphy and graffiti.
Opening Reception: Friday, January 13th, 2011- 7pm
Friday, February 10th, 2011 7-9pm: Exhibition Discussion with Ramiro Diaz-Granados and SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss
January 13th – February 26th, 2012
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Lecture by Cliff Garten, SCI-Arc
Civic Material
American artist Cliff Garten is sought-after for his evocative and nuanced site-specific sculpture. Garten creates large-scale sculptures that seamlessly integrate within urban space, landscape, and infrastructure environments. His body of work has been praised for the way it utilizes light to create energy, inspires interest in public activity, and reframes a sense of place within public and private realms.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
January 18th, 2011- 7pm
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Lecture by Jesse Reiser, UCLA
Jesse Reiser received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Cooper Union in New York and completed his Masters of Architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture, PC has built projects at a wide range of scales: from furniture design, to residential and commercial structures, up to the scale of landscape, urban design, and infrastructure. Reiser + Umemoto published the Atlas of Novel Tectonics, in 2006, and recently released the Japanese edition in 2008.
Perloff Hall, Decafé, UCLA Campus
January 20th, 2011 – 6:30pm
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Lecture by Catherine Opie, UCLA
Catherine Opie lives and works in Los Angeles. Opie’s work engages with the spaces we exist in and the politics of identity. Catherine Opie’s photographs include series of portraits and American urban landscapes, ranging in format from large-scale color works to smaller black and white prints. Moving from the territory of the body to the framework of the city, Opie’s various photographic series are linked together by a conceptual framework of cultural portraiture.
Perloff Hall, Decafé, UCLA Campus
January 23rd, 2011 – 6:30pm
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Lecture by Michel Rojkind, SCI-Arc
Over Stimulation
Michel Rojkind is the Founding Partner of Rojkind Arquitectos. He studied Architecture and Urban Planning at the Universidad Iberoamericana and has based his practice from Mexico City to other latitudes thriving in this creative, chaotic environment, rethinking possible interventions of architecture at a worldwide level.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
January 25th, 2011- 7pm
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Lecutre by Federick Fisher, UCLA
Frederick Fisher leads a practice focused on art, academic institutions, and residences.  Fred received his Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College in Art and Master of Architecture from UCLA. Artist collaboration is a career long commitment. Fred was awarded the Franklin D. Israel Rome Prize in 2008.  Recent projects include the Annenberg Community Beach House, Princeton’s Sherrerd Hall and Caltech’s Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology.
Perloff Hall, Decafé, UCLA Campus
January 30th, 2011 – 6:30pm
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Lecture by Sylvia Lavin, SCI-Arc
Field Trip
Sylvia Lavin is a widely published critic and historian who received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her most recent book, Kissing Architecture, was published by Princeton University Press (2011.) Lavin has been a guest curator for the Hammer Museum, CCA and Ace Galleries and is currently working on a large scale exhibition, Fin-de-Sixties LA: From Pop to Postmodern Architecture. She is the Director of Critical Studies at UCLA and of Hi-C, a design/research group that supports architecture in the public realm. Ms. Lavin is the recipient of a 2011 Arts and Letters Award.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
February 1st, 2011- 7pm
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Lecture by Joe Day, UCLA
Joe Day is a designer and architectural theorist in Los Angeles, where he leads Deegan-Day Design LLC and serves on the design and history/theory faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). In both his design and writing, Day examines the intersections of contemporary art, urbanism and architecture as visual disciplines. He recently contributed an additional foreword to the 2009 edition of Reyner Banham’s seminal study, Los Angeles: Architecture of the Four Ecologies (University of California Press, 2009), and in the spring of 2012, Day will teach at Yale School of Architecture as the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Chair.
Perloff Hall, Decafé, UCLA Campus
February 6, 2011 – 6:30pm
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Lecture by John Enright, SCI-Arc
Recent Threads
John Enright is Co-founder and Principal of the Los Angeles-based Griffin Enright Architects, with partner Margaret Griffin. His firm’s work has been extensively published nationally and internationally, and has received dozens of awards for design excellence including, local, state and national AIA Awards and The American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum. His academic research focuses on design and building technology including Building Information Modeling and new digital paradigms as applied to fabrication and construction.
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
February 8th, 2011- 7pm
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Common Places: Printing, Embroidery, and the Art of Global Mapping
Common Places features three objects from LACMA’s permanent collection which transform printed works on paper into one-of-a-kind embroideries: a seventeenth-century valance, a cigarette silks quilt, and Alighiero Boetti’s Mappa. The resulting textiles articulate contemporary aspects of global phenomena and suggest that far from being a recent development, globalization has deep historical roots that extended into the home and everyday life.
Ahmanson Building, Level 2, LACMA
February 18th, 2012-May 13th, 2012
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Reflections of Mid-Century Modernism
The USC Architectural Guild invites you to a weekend experience of Reflections of Mid-Century Modernism. We welcome you to share in a truly unique weekend hosted by Dean Qingyun Ma, fully exploring, investigating, and celebrating Sunnylands, A.Q. Jones, architecture, and the value of historic preservation.
Rancho Mirage and Palm Springs
February 24-26th, 2012
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Exhibit by Pedro E. Guerrero, WUHO
A Retrospective
A Retrospective presents a rare opportunity to see Guerrero’s seminal contribution to architectural photography, ranging from portraits of architects, commercial work for House & Garden Magazine, and photographs of buildings throughout the United States. Guerrero’s work for Frank Lloyd Wright is of particular importance but the exhibition also seeks to bring attention to the diversity of his long career, including his photography of the work of Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, Edward Durell Stone, and Leroy Binkley, as well as the artists Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson.
WUHO, 6518 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Opening: April 7th, 2012 – 7pm to 10pm (artist in conversation 6pm to 7pm)
Exhibition: April 7th through April 25th, 2012
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Ongoing Los Angeles Area Events

Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design
This exhibition is the first to focus on the formidable range of architectural historian Esther McCoy’s practice, and affirm her unassailable role as a key figure in American modernism. Co-curators writer Susan Morgan and MAK Center director Kimberli Meyer have worked closely with the Esther McCoy Papers–an invaluable primary source comprised of thousands of documents and photographs–housed at the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art, as well as local archives.
MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House
Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 – 6-7 PM Curator-led exhibition walk-through / 7-9 PM Reception
Exhibition: September 28, 2011 – January 8, 2010
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011:  Esther McCoy Film Screening: An evening film screening and discussion that will include Architecture West (1950), written by Esther McCoy and directed by Erven Jourdan; and, The Dodge House, 1916 (1965), written by Esther McCoy and directed by Robert Snyder.
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The Utopian City Project, Giacomo Castagnola and James Rojas
The Collaborative: A project of the Arts Council for Long Beach and The Museum of Latin American Art
Preoccupied with the idea of building an improved society, many architects throughout history have developed projects with the aim of creating the ideal city. Using Long Beach as a model, this exhibition proposes a new exercise in imagining the perfect utopian city of the future. Architect Giacomo Castagnola and Urban Planner James Rojas will collaborate to create an interactive and inhabitable model of Long Beach that will allow the visitors to propose their own ideas for the future of the city. This project will push the boundaries of the conventional architectural model, giving visitors the opportunity to view the city conceptually as well as experience it physically through the senses. By interacting, the visitor’s body becomes an integral piece of the architectural installation.
The Collaborative
421 W. Broadway Ave., Long Beach, CA 90802
October 22nd, 2011 to January 15th, 2012
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Eames Designs: The Guest Host Relationship
For the first time, the words of Charles and Ray Eames will be the lens of an exhibit, enveloping the visitor in a 21st century typographic “surround”. Their philosophy of design and life will be explored through Eames’ quotes, shown graphically (as well as live on film), and complemented by the display of unexpected everyday objects, ranging from food to a keg of nails, to an inter-active digital experience.
A+D Museum
6032 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90036
October 1, 2011- January 16, 2012
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Under the Big Black Sun
California Art 1974-1982
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81 constitutes the most comprehensive survey exhibition to date to examine the exceptional fertility and diversity of art practice in California between 1974 and 1980, a unique period in American history when the political and social roles of artists, the authority of institutions, and the “objecthood” of art were all being questioned. The years bracketing the exhibition represent the ignominious departure and auspicious arrival of two presidential leaders from California: Richard Nixon (1974) and Ronald Reagan (1980), respectively.
MOCA
October 1st, 2011- February 13th, 2012
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Women Hold up Half the Sky
LAYER is pleased to announce the opening of its installation “Cloud” at the Skirball Cultural Center. The exhibit addresses gender equity and is based on the book Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. “Cloud” is suspended over the gallery as a tangible representation of the power of individuals coming together to effect change. Women Hold Up Half the Skyis designed to engage the public in global and local issues affecting women and girls. Like the book, the exhibition puts forth a compelling argument: when women gain access to credit, health care, and education, their communities become healthier, more prosperous, and more just.
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
October 27, 2011-March 11, 2012
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California Design, 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way”
This exhibition is the first major study of California midcentury modern design. With more than 300 objects-furniture, ceramics, metalwork, fashion and textiles, and industrial and graphic design-the exhibition examines the state’s role in shaping the material culture of the entire country. Organized into four thematic areas, the exhibition aims to elucidate the 1951 quote from émigré Greta Magnusson Grossman that California design “is not a superimposed style, but an answer to present conditions…It has developed out of our own preferences for living in a modern way.”
Resnick Pavilion LACMA
October 1, 2011 – March 25, 2012
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About the LA Forum

Delirious LA Calender
This calendar is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.

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LA FORUM
Founded in 1987, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting innovative art, architecture, design, and urbanism that takes this city as a laboratory. The Forum plays a vital role among architecture organizations nationally and internationally by initiating, presenting, and debating architectural and urbanistic speculations about Los Angeles.

Memberships and Donations

Memberships: Membership helps sustain the Forum’s website, lectures, competitions, publications, and other events. By renewing your membership or becoming a member, you give support to the cause of architecture and design, while enjoying a stimulating year of Forum happenings. Some membership levels also receive complimentary gifts.

John Chase Memorial Fund: In memory of John Chase, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design will grant an annual award for the creation of an event or publication in his name that will tackle the urban issues he believed in by bringing new talking heads to light as critical voices of today. We are thrilled to keep the celebration of John alive with this endeavor.

LA Forum Sponsors & Contributors

Sponsors: St. Thomas the Apostle School, Blueprint, Colornet Press, and Woodbury University.

Contributors: AHBE Landscape Architects, Architects’ Newspaper, Arktura, Boffi, D+ Con Construction, Daly Genik Architects, Ehrlich Architects, Fred Fisher and Partners, Gehry Partners, Gensler, Griffin Enright Architects, House & Robertson Architects, Inc., Hinerfeld-Ward, Inc., Ilan Dei Studio, KCRW, Koning Eizenberg, LA AIA, Merry Norris Contemporary Art, Morphosis Architects, Pamela Burton & Company, Taylor & Company, Tichenor & Thorp Architects, Inc., Thornton Tomasetti, Suisman Urban Design, Osborn, SCI-Arc, Warren Techentin Architecture, Uprinting and WD Partners.

Dear Friend of the LA Forum,
As we come to the end of another active and successful year, I want to take a few moments to recap 2011 and look toward next year. Our successes in 2011 would not have been possible without your continued support – so, from the bottom of our hearts – Thank You!  We ask of you, kindly; please keep us in mind in your end-of-year giving, and in maintaining your active membership and sponsorship.

Believe it or not, it was 25 years ago that Aaron Betsky and Christian Hubert and other founding members gathered informally and created the Los Angeles Forum.  Their mission was to fill a void in the discourse on architecture and urbanism in our dynamic metropolis. This year we are proud to celebrate the Forum’s 25th anniversary with a series of events and 2-month exhibition entitled Unfinished Business. The Forum will revisit the past and look to the future as we sort out various levels of “complete” work and chart new trajectories for further exploration.

Opening in July 2012, Unfinished Business aims to represent the physical, intellectual and critical inquiries embodied within the Forum’s mission over the past twenty-five years.  We will rethink the Beverly Center and revisit the controversy over the (former) Ambassador Hotel and discuss the decisions surrounding the redevelopment of Grand Avenue, as well as many other subjects. Visitors will be encouraged to draw their own connections between ideas, people and works that have made up the Forum since 1987. This will be an impressive display of the Forum’s myriad explorations and will be the perfect backdrop for ForumFest 2012, a summer symposium, alumni Pecha Kucha, and other events surrounding the exhibition.

Over the past twelve months, our annual summer lecture series (both On the Map and Out There Doing It) were met with great enthusiasm.  OTM: Varying Degrees explored several new institutions of higher learning.  OTDI: AfterImage, held at the MAK Center, attempted to recreate the ad hoc dialogues that architects engage in with co-conspirators, consultants, and critics.  The Forum also continued the tradition of hosting Pecha Kucha Nights, collaborating with BROODWORK and inviting guest artists to take part in our online gallery.

In May, we partnered with deLAB to pay tribute to departed Forum alumnus and friend John Chase with a walking tour of West Hollywood commemorating his life and work. This was the inaugural event of the John Chase Memorial Fund and in January we will be distributing a pocket-guide map designed by Keith Scharwath. Limited print editions of this map will be made possible by the John Chase Memorial Fund. To receive your copy, contribute, or learn about the Memorial Fund, please visit laforum.org/JCMF.

Infrastructurally, the Forum has been working to fine-tune our website laforum.org.  Over the course of the next few months, you will notice the incorporation of more digitized 1990s Forum newsletters, old publications and documentation of past events.  The archival work on the website is developing in parallel with preparations for Unfinished Business, supported by member donations and sponsorships as well as grants received in recent years. Presently, we are planning an interactive feature for the Delirious LA event calendar.

As we gear up for Unfinished Business, we hope to involve input from as many members as possible to help capture and illustrate the richness of Forum’s contributions to Los Angeles. Contact me or incoming president Thurman Grant at president@laforum.org to share your ideas, advice, bits of folklore, recollections or photos from Forum events, or just to say hello. We promise to keep you informed as we get closer to the major events coming in 2012.

We need your support today more than ever. The enclosed year-at-a-glance is just a brief outline of what we have been able to accomplish with your support this past year.  Each exhibition, lecture series, collaboration and website improvement all take resources that we could not access without your help.
As the Forum moves towards its silver anniversary and beyond, I look forward to celebrating 25 years of the Forum at ForumFest 2012, the Unfinished Business exhibition, and related events throughout the coming year.

WHY ENTER?

KEY DATES

JURORS

THE NEXT FIFTY

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LOS ANGELES FORUM EVENTS:

Leah Beeferman- Online Gallery

- Subtle structures

- Non-measurable objects

- Interchangeable sequences

- Events over time

- Uncertain spaces (indeterminate)

- Interference and accumulations

- Invented collisions (and their results)

- Invented events

- Transparent events

- Invisible architecture
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UPCOMING LOS ANGELES AREA EVENTS:

Lecture by Devyn Weiser, SCI-Arc
Devyn Weiser: 2020 Intro by John Enright Devyn Weiser is Principal-in-Charge of Design at Testa/Weiser and co-founder of the MIT Emergent Design Group (EDG). At Testa/Weiser she leads a wide range of projects from product design to large-scale architecture. Current work includes Vaporware (VPR), the world’s largest ocean-based energy infrastructure with pilot projects for California and Cape Verde; Automorphic Strand Tower, robotically pultruded fiber structure; King’s Road Apparel Shop, all composite structure in West Hollywood; and FML 001, fiber metal laminate house in Santa Monica. With a consortium of industry partners she directs ESCape, an open source platform for decentralized waste-to-energy (WtE) solutions.
SCI-Arc/ W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
Friday, December 2nd, 2011 – 1pm
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INcoversation with Eames Words Co-Curators

Join A+D Museum for a special inCONVERSATION event with EAMES WORDS Co-Curators Deborah Sussman and Andrew Byrom. Typographer Andrew Byrom sits down with Deborah Sussman, principal of Sussman/Prejza, to discuss her career and their recent collaboration curating and designing A+D Museum’s current exhibition EAMES WORDS.
Admission: $15 Individual, $7 Student w/valid ID, A+D Members FREE.
6032 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Thursday, December 8th 2011- 6:30-8:30pm
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Anna Neimark: Infrastructural Monument
The political monument, under the Soviet regime, was embodied in the construction of a new water infrastructure. Geography was thus transformed into an architectural scale. Concrete, machines, and water formed a single continuous artificial landscape. Representing this object as both geographic and architectural, the installation extrudes one side of the canal system into a foam wall-an infrastructural monument.
Anna Neimark’s installation, constructed out of fifty-four three-foot cubes of EPS white foam, re-imagines a piece of infrastructure as a monument of a complex history when a canal from Moscow to St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) was built during the second Five Year Plan, under Josef Stalin.
Funding provided by the Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences (ASHSS) research grant program at the University of Southern California.
WUHO Gallery
6518 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Thursday, December 8^th, 2011- 7pm
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Lecture by Peter Noever, SCI-Arc

Contemporary Art Territory ‘21
Intro by Eric Owen Moss
A new museum, an up-to-date art institution – what are the requirements? Noever’s special lecture at SCI-Arc will focus on his perception for the initiative of a new art institution focussing on the cultural heritage of tomorrow. His presentation will focus on a new content/a philosophy for up-to-date art institutions: “there is no contemporary architecture without the contemporary.”
CAT 21’s purpose is not to position art as the passive object of the viewer’s gaze, but rather to actively produce it and put it into action on site. Both the production and the presentation of the artworks will be publicly accessible, making CAT 21 into a catalyst of immediate dialogue between the artists, architects, designers and the art public.
W.M. Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc
Friday, December 9^th 2011- 7pm
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Stone on Stone: SAH/SCC Lecture and Book Signing

The Society of Architectural Historians/Southern California Chapter presents architect Hicks Stone, author of “Edward Durell Stone: A Son’s Untold Story of a Legendary Architect.” The elder Stone, one of the more controversial figures of 20th-century architecture, was both celebrated and scorned, leading a life that was simultaneously triumphant and embittered. Free Event.
Edward Cella Art + Architecture
6018 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles free
Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 4:00pm to 6:00pm
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En Plein Air in El Segundo
An Incendiary Traces event organized by artist Hillary Mushkin
Co-organized with Robby Herbst in conjunction with Llano Del Rio’s new Guide to L.A.’s Assholes. An outdoor “drawing” salon of the war contractors by the beach, with poets Diane Ward and Jane Sprague reading. Consider drawing metaphorically here — it could include many forms of tracing the landscape, from walking to as-built architectural drawing to watercolor painting.
(Nearest public street parking is on Coral Circle, south of El Segundo Blvd.)
496 N. Douglas St. (between Mariposa Ave. and El Segundo Blvd.)
El Segundo, CA 90245
Saturday, December 10th, 2011 at 11:00am to 1:00pm
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Celebrating The Fourth Factor
AIA|LA Committee on Architecture in Healthcare
The title of this presentation refers to the words of Hippocrates of Kos, widely regarded as the father of Western medicine. He held that there were “three factors” important to the success of medical care: the disease, the patient, and the physician. Our presentation will expands this list to acknowledge the role of the built environment in the healing process, and is based on the now famous book by John Michael Currie, AIA “The Fourth Factor: A Historical Perspective on Architecture and Medicine” This informal discussion will explore the relationship between the practice of medicine and architecture from ancient times to the present.
3780 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90010
December 21st, 2011 – 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
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Exhibition by Ramiro Diaz-Granados, Amorphis, SCI-Arc

Go Figure
Seeking to shift the role of the figure from a metaphorical device to a subliminal one, Go Figure promotes simultaneity in the evolution of the delineated figure by distributing cartoon and visceral features across a three-dimensional, spline based form. A delineated figure is repeated four times into two symmetrical pairs. Each pair is situated in the gallery according to different transversal regulating lines stemming from the relationship between the ground and the ceiling. One pair is centered within the space, the other is centered under one of the structural bays. Together they fill the space in a composition that confounds the legibility of each figure in favor of more sensate qualities with allusions to calligraphy and graffiti.
Opening Reception: Friday, January 13th, 2011- 7pm
Friday, February 10th, 2011 7-9pm: Exhibition Discussion with Ramiro Diaz-Granados and SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss
January 13th – February 26th, 2012
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ONGOING LOS ANGELES AREA EVENTS:

The Utopian City Project, Giacomo Castagnola and James Rojas
The Collaborative: A project of the Arts Council for Long Beach and The Museum of Latin American Art
Preoccupied with the idea of building an improved society, many architects throughout history have developed projects with the aim of creating the ideal city. Using Long Beach as a model, this exhibition proposes a new exercise in imagining the perfect utopian city of the future. Architect Giacomo Castagnola and Urban Planner James Rojas will collaborate to create an interactive and inhabitable model of Long Beach that will allow the visitors to propose their own ideas for the future of the city. This project will push the boundaries of the conventional architectural model, giving visitors the opportunity to view the city conceptually as well as experience it physically through the senses. By interacting, the visitor’s body becomes an integral piece of the architectural installation.
The Collaborative
421 W. Broadway Ave., Long Beach, CA 90802
October 22nd, 2011 to January 15th, 2012
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Eames Designs: The Guest Host Relationship
For the first time, the words of Charles and Ray Eames will be the lens of an exhibit, enveloping the visitor in a 21st century typographic “surround”. Their philosophy of design and life will be explored through Eames’ quotes, shown graphically (as well as live on film), and complemented by the display of unexpected everyday objects, ranging from food to a keg of nails, to an inter-active digital experience.
A+D Museum
6032 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90036
October 1, 2011- January 16, 2012
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Women Hold up Half the Sky
LAYER is pleased to announce the opening of its installation “Cloud” at the Skirball Cultural Center. The exhibit addresses gender equity and is based on the book Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. “Cloud” is suspended over the gallery as a tangible representation of the power of individuals coming together to effect change. Women Hold Up Half the Skyis designed to engage the public in global and local issues affecting women and girls. Like the book, the exhibition puts forth a compelling argument: when women gain access to credit, health care, and education, their communities become healthier, more prosperous, and more just.
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
October 27, 2011-March 11, 2012
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California Design, 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way”
This exhibition is the first major study of California midcentury modern design. With more than 300 objects-furniture, ceramics, metalwork, fashion and textiles, and industrial and graphic design-the exhibition examines the state’s role in shaping the material culture of the entire country. Organized into four thematic areas, the exhibition aims to elucidate the 1951 quote from émigré Greta Magnusson Grossman that California design “is not a superimposed style, but an answer to present conditions…It has developed out of our own preferences for living in a modern way.”
Resnick Pavilion LACMA
October 1, 2011 – March 25, 2012
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RE – CYCLE.
Strategies for Architecture, City and Planet
curated by Pippo Ciorra and MAXXI Architettura
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photographic exhibition: Pieter Hugo – Permanent Error
curated by Francesca Fabiani
1 December 2011–29 April 2012
MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts
Via Guido Reni 4A
00196 Rome
www.fondazionemaxxi.it